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India Today’s Karnataka Roundtable: Setting the Agenda for Battle 2023
Mumbai: India Today’s Karnataka Roundtable 2023 brings together political heavyweights, industrialists and celebrities before the crucial state assembly polls on 10 May.
Organised by the India Today Group, the country’s largest media conglomerate, the Karnataka Roundtable will be held on 22 April in Bengaluru. The roundtable will cover a wide range of topics critical to the state elections, from the resurgence of Congress to reservation politics, polarisation to corruption.
Among the speakers for the Karnataka Roundtable are Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Congress National President Mallikarjun Kharge, Chief Minister of Karnataka Basavaraj Bommai, Former Chief Minister of Karnataka and Leader of Opposition, Siddaramaiah, Congress president D K Shivakumar, Lingayat seer Basavarajendra Mrityunjaya Swami, among others.
The Roundtable will feature a host of sessions throughout the day, including ‘Karnataka Today, India Tomorrow,’ ‘The Battle for Karnataka,’ ‘Bengaluru Dreams or Dust,’ ‘Anyone for a slice of reservation,’ ‘BJP’s war for the south,’ ‘Karnataka’s war on corruption,’ ‘Namma Modi BJP’s gamechanger,’ and more.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah will kick-off the event with his take on ‘Karnataka Today, India Tomorrow’, while the Chief Minister of Karnataka, Basavaraj Bommai, will speak on ‘The Battle for Karnataka.’ Mallikarjun Kharge, the President of the Indian National Congress, will focus on ‘Victory at ‘Hand’ and D K Shivakumar, the president of Karnataka Congress, will speak on his role as ‘Karnataka’s Chanakya.’
Additionally, former Karnataka CM’s Siddaramaiah and H D Kumaraswamy will participate in discussions titled ‘Roar of a Challenger’ and ‘Kingmaker or Crown’. Other noteworthy speakers include the Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Pralhad Joshi, who will discuss ‘Namma Modi BJP’s gamechanger,’ and Tejasvi Surya, MP Lok Sabha, BJP, and Dinesh Gundu Rao, Congress MLA, who will debate on ‘Delivery Dangal: What Karnataka Wants.’ Congress’ in-charge for Karnataka, Randeep Surjewala, and Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, will speak on ‘Who does Karnataka trust more.’
A panel discussion titled ‘Anyone for a slice of reservation’ will feature Lingayat seer Basavarajendra Mrityunjaya Swami, Karnataka Backward Class Commission chairman, K Jayaprakash Hegde, Chairman, BJP MLA Arvind Bellad, and Congress MLA NA Harris. Air Deccan founder Capt Gopinath will speak on ‘Bengaluru Dreams or Dust?’
Minister C. N. Ashwath Narayan, Karnataka Pradesh Youth Congress Committee president Mohammed Haris Nalapad, Congress MLA Sowmya Reddy and BJP MLC Tejaswini Gowda will be part of a roundtable discussion titled ‘Youth Nataka: Hungry and Restless.’
The Kannada film industry basking in the glory of recent smash-hits like KGF-2 will celebrate its achievements in a discussion on ‘Sandalwood Soaring: Kannada Cinema’s fightback’ featuring actor and former Member of Parliament Ramya. The debate will move on to ‘BJP’s War for the South’ with K Annamalai, President of Tamil Nadu BJP and a talk on ‘Karnataka’s War on Corruption’ by Lok Ayukta, Justice B S Patil.
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News18 India to air Sabse Bada Dangal on 4 May counting day
Channel promises fastest results, live trends and analysis across five states.
MUMBAI: Ballots will do the talking and screens will do the shouting. As counting day approaches for high-stakes Assembly elections across West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry, News18 India is gearing up for an all-day broadcast of its flagship election show, Sabse Bada Dangal, on 4 May from 6 am onwards. The Hindi news channel plans to deliver continuous, real-time updates as votes are tallied, combining live counting data with on-ground reporting and studio analysis. With political fortunes set to shift through the day, the coverage will track every swing, surge and surprise as trends turn into results.
The broadcast will feature a mix of senior political leaders, analysts and experts, offering instant reactions and decoding the evolving electoral picture. Expect heated debates, quick takes and detailed breakdowns as the numbers settle across all five states.
For News18 India, counting day has long been a high-visibility moment. The network is banking on its reporting reach, editorial bandwidth and technology-driven coverage to stay ahead in what is often a fiercely competitive news cycle.
With multiple battlegrounds and shifting narratives, the day promises both drama and data in equal measure. And if all goes to plan, Sabse Bada Dangal will once again turn the counting of votes into prime-time spectacle.
